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Episode #342: Linda Buckmaster!
Episode 342 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to poet and memoirist Linda Buckmaster about how our subjects sometimes choose us, the wondrous weirdness of Florida, and how the find form in the flux of composition.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #250: Raw
The Curator of Schlock #250 by Jeff Shuster Raw I’m not moving to France. Each year, I try to cover a cannibalism movie the day after Thanksgiving as a means to gross out my readership after they’ve gorged themselves on candied yams and other assorted delicacies. But I may have bit off more than I… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #80: Jason Heller’s Strange Stars
Buzzed Books #80 by Drew Barth Jason Heller’s Strange Stars Stars, man. Also, Starman. We can bring in the 70s music scene with the crippling depression of the Altamont Free Concert, or with a blast of cosmic literature radiation that would seep its way into popular culture throughout the decade. And this explosion of new… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #25: The Algorithm That Ate the Dick Pic
Pensive Prowler #25 by Dmetri Kakmi The Algorithm That Ate the Dick Pic It all started with a dick pic. This one to be precise. It’s the cover for Taschen’s The Big Penis Book. I posted it in response to a friend’s Facebook post—from here on referred to as Facepalm Booklet. The friend wanted to… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #78: O [Othello] (2001)
78. Tim Blake Nelson’s O [Othello] (2001) This nugget of a film fell between the cracks of the art house crowd and the teenagers who went to see Save the Last Dance, The Princess Diaries, and Final Destination. Admittedly, the premise didn’t seem promising: set Othello in a prep school with the tragic hero being… Continue reading
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Episode #341: The Interplanetary Acoustic Team!
Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to Brian Turner & Jared Silvia about making a beautiful, experimental poetic album of space ballads and duets. Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #249: Holiday Movie Preview 2018
The Curator of Schlock #249 by Jeff Shuster Holiday Movie Preview 2018 I’ve got nothing. I was going to cover 2018’s Skyscraper from director Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Neve Campbell. There are evil terrorists trying to burn down the world’s tallest building located in Hong Kong. The Rock’s character has a… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #79: Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix
Buzzed Books #79 by Drew Barth Rich Tommaso’s Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix (Collects Issues 1-4) Let’s talk about adventure comics. While DC Comics published their own, titled Adventure Comics in kind with Action and Detective, the realm of adventure comics as a genre is uniquely European. Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, the various works of Jacques… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #77: King Lear (2018)
77. Richard Eyre’s King Lear (2018) I basically hate Macbeth, and I like Lear even fucking less than that, sweet reader, but when the BBC released a film of the elderly tragedy starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, my hand was obviously forced into watching it. As I’ve said before, in Lear “There’s a lot… Continue reading
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Episode 340: LaTanya McQueen!
Episode 340 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to creative nonfiction writer LaTanya McQueen about how our stories sometimes choose us, how to write a really good footnote, and how to try to talk about history… Continue reading
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